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Originally Posted by ianch99
Who do you really think holds the power today: the employers or the employees (backed by the unions if they have one)?
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Employers, backed by government policies just have too much power. The employer/employee balance that we had (in varying degrees) is now way too far in favour of the employer. Without this balance, society is heading for a dark place. The ability of multi national companies who are invited to this country by fawning politicians, allowed to escape paying taxes and to then with no or little consequence relocate their UK business to India or China leaving their UK employees redundant.
Pretending that unions are still the bogey man just plays into the hands of the right wing press and ignores the real threat to our country and that is the growing disparity between the poor (however you may define them) and the wealthy. This is the elephant in the room and is being ignored. This is the real and present danger to our children's future. How many of our chidren will be able to buy their own home as their parents may have done, espcially in London? Answer: a lot less. It is not the hysterical non-stories about the scrounging poor or the tidal waves of fertile immigrants that are the real issue we should address today.
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Scroungers don't have to be poor and millions of immigrants have driven down the wages of the poorest whilst benefiting the richest. They have also required housing which is in short supply thereby helping to drive prices/rents up. They may not be the sole or biggest cause of the problems you cite but they don't help matters do they and to say so isn't hysterical.